A visual essay by Nikos Kachrimanis
The Handmade Island
Tinos Island, Greece
A vision by Nikos Kachrimanis
Tinos Island is not like the rest of the Cyclades of the Aegean Sea. For decades it’s been a major pilgrimage site of the Greek Orthodox Church, with people gathering in its cathedral every August to make offerings to the Virgin Mary. They bring small metal representations of the things they want to ask blessing for: a ship, a house, a male or female figurine. In the past its inhabitants, calm and welcoming as the island itself, overcame their natural lack of resources founding villages high on the hills. They built terraces, stretching over the slopes, which created land for agriculture, raising flocks of pigeons on them for meat and manure. I suddenly found them everywhere in this land, so sweet and serene, so sacred, a place where one can pay respect to what he value most.
Photography and words. Nikos Kachrimanis
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Nikos Kachrimanis
Nikos Kachrimanis is interested in familiarity and intimacy. He depicts or constructs colourful instances of small revelations or the ties to a sentimentally active state of the soul, as a means of preserving human nature in the middle of a swirling reality. He also has a degree in Dentistry and a PhD in Biomaterials and lives in Athens, Greece.
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